May 13th 6PM
Fellows Book Party
Featuring Recent Publications by our 2006-2007 Resident Fellows:
   
Susan M. Reverby, Patricia Hills, C. S. Manegold, and Patricia Sullivan
 Including Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham's New Edition of From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans
Lecture begins at 6pm in the Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138
There will be a question and answer session, plus book signing, following the discussion.
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Spring 2010 Colloquium Series
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Wednesday, May 5th, 12pm
Jason Sokol
Visiting Lecturer in African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Forerunner: Edward Brooke, Black Power, and White Votes
Wednesday, May 12th, 12pm
Ronald Richardson
Associate Professor of African American History, Boston University
Towards a Transcultural Spectatorial Community: Yukio Mishima, August Wilson, Junichiro Tanizaki, Frantz Fanon and all the rest of us with kinky hair, crooked legs and wandering selves
Wednesday, May 19th, 12pm
Lyndon Gill
Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology and African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Transfiguring Trinidad and Tobago: Queer Cultural Production, Erotic Subjectivity, and a New Postcolonialism
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
-Free and open to the public.
-A question and answer period will follow the talk.
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Recent Events @ the Institute
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April 20 - 22
W. J. T. Mitchell delivers the W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures "Teachable Moments: Race, Media & Visual Culture"
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In the Rudenstine Gallery...
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Ever Young: James Barnor
Street and Studio Photography, Ghana/UK
Presented by Autograph ABP and the
W. E. B. Du Bois Institute
Exhibit runs until May 26th. Gallery Hours: 9 a.m - 5 p.m.
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 David Bindman, W. E. B. Du Bois Fellow and Editor of the Image of the Black in Western Art Book Series profiled in the Washington Post
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 Adam Haupt, Mandela Mellon Fellow, featured in the Harvard Gazette
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 Joanna Lipper, W. E. B. Du Bois Fellow, profiled in Next Magazine (Nigeria)
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Monday, May 10th, 12pm-2pm
Fellows' Workshop Hosted by Zimitri Erasmus
May 21-23, 2010
Film Festival Organized by Arlette Frund and Trica Keatonn
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 The Cinema @ DBI Friday Film Series concludes this month with Have You Seen Drum, Recently? (May 7th), IN / FLUX (May 14th), and Fela Kuti: Music is the Weapon followed with a showing of Black President (May 21st). Film screenings are held in the Du Bois Institute's Hutchins Family Library and are free and open to public. Co-Sponsored by the Committee on African Studies.
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Community and National Events Listing
iDBI is a place to find information on events, both local and national, related to African and
African American Studies.
To post an event, send an email to iDBI@fas.harvard.edu
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May 6th, 4:00-6:00pm
FRANCE AND THE WORLD
(HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Patrick
Sylvain (Harvard University).
Harvard Humanities Center, Barker Center 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 May 8th, 10am
Celebrate Mothers Day with a Women's History
Walking Tour of Florence!
Tour leaves from the Sojourner Truth
Statue, corner Park and Pine Street, Florence, Massachusetts
May Events at the Harvard Book Store
May 17th 7:00pm
Wes Mooore, The
Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
May 18th 7:00pm
Unity Dow and Max Essex,
Saturday Is for Funerals
 May
25th 7:00pmClaude M. Steele, Whistling Vivaldi and Other Clues to How
Stereotypes Affect Us
France Noire / Black France
Film Festival
Forum des Images
Paris, France
May 26th, 4:0pm
Department of African and African American Studies Award Ceremony and Graduation Party
Thompson Room, Barker Center
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge MA 02138
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